Did Andy Dick survive 'Dancing' elimination?

May 1, 2013
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Adrianne Haslet, a a professional ballroom dancer injured by one of the bombs that exploded near the Boston Marathon finish line, lifts her bandaged left leg in her bed at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston on April 24. / Bizuayehu Tesfaye, AP

by Ann Oldenburg, USA TODAY

by Ann Oldenburg, USA TODAY

Comedian Andy Dick, who has won many fans over with his heartfelt story of sobriety and with his charming attempts at dancing, was way at the bottom of the pack going into Tuesday's Dancing With the Stars results show.

Did he somehow survive?

Here's what happened:

Michael Buble got the show going with Come Dance With Me, off his new album To Be Loved. He was followed by Aly Raisman and USA TODAY blogger Mark Ballas performing an encore of their fun, tropical salsa dance from Monday night.

Kellie Pickler and Derek Hough were already safe after Monday's show.

Zendaya was the first celeb deemed safe on Tuesday.

Jacoby Jones was the first celeb in jeopardy. There were boos from the audience when that news was announced by hosts Tom Bergeron and Brooke Burke-Charvet.

Next, Aly and Mark were deemed safe. And soap star Ingo Rademacher and Kym Johnson were told they were in jeopardy.

The show took a break from results to highlight Tawanda Jones, founder of youth dance organization Camden Sophisticated Sisters. The program, located in Camden, N.J., provides a place for young women to learn discipline, cooperation and a sense of achievement through drill team competition. In a special "Spotlight Performance," eight members of the organization performed.

And then the show shared the story of Adrianne Haslet, 32 a professional ballroom dancer whose leg was amputated below the knee as a result of wound suffered in the Boston Marathon bombings. She and her husband, who had just come home from Afghanistan, were just enjoying the day when they bomb went off about four feet from them.

"It's hard to describe how much I love dancing," she said. When the bomb went off, she landed on the ground and tried to move her leg. "I remember thinking I was going to die." Her mother had to break the news to Adrianne that her foot was gone. "This is the longest I've gone without dancing for as long as I can remember," she said in a taped interview for the show. Her recovery has been "tough," she says, adding it's been "impossibly hard at times." But she vowed, "I absolutely will dance again." And she would "love" to dance on the show. Bergeron said Dancing will follow Adrianne's progress and will help her create a dance routine to perform on the show.

And then it was time for the big results.

Sean Lowe and partner Peta Murgatroyd were deemed safe, leaving Andy Dick and partner Sharna Burgess in jeopardy along with Jacoby Jones and Ingo Rademacher and their partners.

Jacoby was safe, leaving Ingo and Andy as the bottom two.

Going home ... Andy Dick. What did the show experience mean to him?

"I've been talking about it from day one," he said, welling up. "It's been the best. It's just been the best. Carrie Ann. I'm going to kill you for that five," he said to judge Carrie Ann Inaba, who was particularly harsh on him on Monday. "It was all your fault," he said, smiling. He went on to thank everybody in the ballroom and all the fans who voted for him. "I love you guys."